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Re: Exactly
Posted By: Ian Johnston In Response To: Exactly (David)
Date: Sunday, 25 May 2003, at 9:31 p.m.
: Yah mon. Thats the rub. I know a climber, real dedicated dude, lives at the
: base of the Squamish Chief in BC, lives for rock.......he got out onto the
: water one day, hit a big wind and crapped his pants.....of all the outdoor
: things I have done or just tried, being in the middle of the drink, even
: now, when I lose control, has got to take the cake on terror......haven't
: been terrified in a while, but I find it really helps, like you said, to
: understand that there is no "break" on the open water, no place
: to run and hide. And being terrestrial, rather than marine creatures, what
: I wouldn't give for pair of flippers and a dorsal fin sometimes.In it's extreme this terror was known as qayak sickness by the Innuit. It ruined many of the best hunters and most experienced kayakers. There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to who it would affect or why so it was something they all feared.
Once the terror got to this level, sufferers did not return to the cockpit but spent the rest of their lives on land, doing whatever they could to survive. It must have been bad for an experienced kayaker to chose the possibility of their family starving to death over returning to the ocean in a kayak.
Ian
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